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title: Exodus 32:5 — And when Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: And when Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said: 'To-morrow shall be a feast to the LORD.' Who acts: Aaron, morrow. Exodus 32:5 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Onkelos, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 32:5 שְׁמוֹת

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**Who acts:** Aaron, morrow · **What happens:** see, build, make, say, be · **To what, where:** this, altar, proclamation, feast · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse

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This is Exodus 32:5 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (The Torah). The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — Aaron, morrow — and what happens in the verse to this, altar, proclamation, feast, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of Targum Onkelos and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 40 chapters of Exodus on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between.

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וַיַּ֣רְא אַהֲרֹ֔ן וַיִּ֥בֶן מִזְבֵּ֖חַ לְפָנָ֑יו וַיִּקְרָ֤א אַֽהֲרֹן֙ וַיֹּאמַ֔ר חַ֥ג לַיהוָ֖ה מָחָֽר׃

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[And when Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said: 'To-morrow shall be a feast to the LORD.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.949/)

## The tree {#tree}

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Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss.

```conllu rtl gloss
# sent_id = wlc:EXO:910
# text = וַיַּ֣רְא אַהֲרֹ֔ן וַיִּ֥בֶן מִזְבֵּ֖חַ לְפָנָ֑יו וַיִּקְרָ֤א אַֽהֲרֹן֙ וַיֹּאמַ֔ר חַ֥ג לַיהוָ֖ה מָחָֽר׃
# verse = EXO.32.5
1-2	וַיַּ֣רְא	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
1	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	2	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=EXO_32:5!1|MId=o020320050011|Strong=2050b
2	יַּ֣רְא	רָאָה	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	0	root	_	Gloss=he.saw|Ref=EXO_32:5!1|MId=o020320050012|Strong=7200|Frame=A0:020320050021;|Type=wayyiqtol
3	אַהֲרֹ֔ן	אַהֲרֹן	PROPN	_	_	2	nsubj	_	Gloss=Aaron|Ref=EXO_32:5!2|MId=o020320050021|Strong=0175
4-5	וַיִּ֥בֶן	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
4	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	5	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=EXO_32:5!3|MId=o020320050031|Strong=2050b
5	יִּ֥בֶן	בָּנָה	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	2	conj	_	Gloss=he.built|Ref=EXO_32:5!3|MId=o020320050032|Strong=1129|Frame=A0:020320050021;A1:020320050041;|Type=wayyiqtol
6	מִזְבֵּ֖חַ	מִזְבֵּחַ	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	5	obj	_	Gloss=an.altar|Ref=EXO_32:5!4|MId=o020320050041|Strong=4196
7-9	לְפָנָ֑יו	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
7	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	_	8	case	_	Gloss=before|Ref=EXO_32:5!5|MId=o020320050051|Strong=3807a
8	פָנָ֑י	פָּנֶה	NOUN	_	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	Gloss=|Ref=EXO_32:5!5|MId=o020320050052|Strong=6440
9	ו	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=it|Ref=EXO_32:5!5|MId=o020320050053|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal
10-11	וַיִּקְרָ֤א	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
10	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	11	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=EXO_32:5!6|MId=o020320050061|Strong=2050b
11	יִּקְרָ֤א	קָרָא	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	2	conj	_	Gloss=he.called|Ref=EXO_32:5!6|MId=o020320050062|Strong=7121|Frame=A0:020320050071;|Type=wayyiqtol
12	אַֽהֲרֹן֙	אַהֲרֹן	PROPN	_	_	11	nsubj	_	Gloss=Aaron|Ref=EXO_32:5!7|MId=o020320050071|Strong=0175
13-14	וַיֹּאמַ֔ר	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
13	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	14	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=EXO_32:5!8|MId=o020320050081|Strong=2050b
14	יֹּאמַ֔ר	אָמַר	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	2	conj	_	Gloss=he.said|Ref=EXO_32:5!8|MId=o020320050082|Strong=0559|Frame=A0:020320050071;|Type=wayyiqtol
15	חַ֥ג	חַג	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	Gloss=a.festival|Ref=EXO_32:5!9|MId=o020320050091|Strong=2282
16-17	לַיהוָ֖ה	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
16	לַ	לְ	ADP	_	_	17	case	_	Gloss=of|Ref=EXO_32:5!10|MId=o020320050101|Strong=3807a
17	יהוָ֖ה	יהוה	PROPN	_	_	14	ccomp	_	Gloss=Yahweh|Ref=EXO_32:5!10|MId=o020320050102|Strong=3068
18	מָחָֽר	מָחָר	ADV	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	17	advmod	_	Gloss=[will.be].tomorrow|Ref=EXO_32:5!11|MId=o020320050111|Strong=4279|SpaceAfter=No
19	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	18	punct	_	Ref=EXO_32:5!11
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- speech: a frame and its quote
- negation: no
- the frame alone: decl · narrate · none

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| verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| יַּרְא *he saw* | wayyiqtol · qal | אַהֲרֹן *Aaron* |  |  |  |
| יִּבֶן *he built* | wayyiqtol · qal | אַהֲרֹן *Aaron* | מִזְבֵּחַ *an altar* |  |  |
| יִּקְרָא *he called* | wayyiqtol · qal | אַֽהֲרֹן *Aaron* |  |  |  |
| יֹּאמַר *he said* | wayyiqtol · qal | אַֽהֲרֹן *Aaron* |  |  |  |

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MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen.

## Targum Onkelos {#onkelos}

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וַחֲזָא אַהֲרֹן וּבְנָא מַדְבְּחָא קֳדָמוֹהִי וּקְרָא אַהֲרֹן וַאֲמַר חַגָא קֳדָם יְיָ מְחָר:

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The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet.

## English, JPS 1917 {#english}

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Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in.

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1. [And when Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said: 'To-morrow shall be a feast to the LORD.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.949/)

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**Hebrew text:** Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. **Tree, glosses and frames:** MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at [github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew](https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew/), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). **Speech act:** Mova's rules on the MACULA words (`macula prag`). **Targum:** Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain.

**English:** JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License).

Hebrew sentence `wlc:EXO:910`.

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